This week’s episode of The Mandalorian featured the surprisingly important return of R5-D4 — an astromech droid that Din Djarin ended up taking to Mandalore. What you may not have known is that you’ve ...

It initially seemed like a happy little accident. In the original Star Wars, Uncle Owen intended to buy C-3PO but not R2-D2, separating the longtime friends. In his poor judgment, he picked R5-D4 to ...

The Star Wars franchise isn't entirely reliant on callbacks, references, and legacy cameos, but they're still happy to throw them in every so often. The Mandalorian is still primarily the journey of ...

If you don’t recognize R5-D4, the astromech droid was one of R2-D2’s fellow droid prisoners in the Jawas’ sandcrawler on Tatooine, during the opening act of Star Wars: A New Hope. In the original ...

"STAR WARS: THE BLACK SERIES R5-D4 – (HASBRO/Ages 4 years & up/Approx. Retail Price: $24.99 / Available: Spring 2024). A battered astromech droid, R5-D4 has had a long operational span bouncing around ...

In a world in which most movies are available at the touch of a button – or the touch of a button and a rental fee; or, in some rarer cases, the touch of a button and a disc shows up a couple days ...

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers from Season 3 Episode 2 of The Mandalorian. It is in the nature of The Mandalorian to decorate its episodes with Easter eggs from the past — droids, ...

R5-D4 — now there’s a name Star Wars fans haven’t heard in ages. Actually, they’ve never heard it. This particular droid from 1977’s original Star Wars was only ever referred to by its color, as in ...

With the second episode of the third season of the Mandalorian having been released, viewers have been reintroduced to Peli Motto and her band of droids and Jawas that she uses to hustle her way ...